sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

"figuring out how to navigate through life a little more efficiently" is how steve jobs in 2007 described the most important new internet apps. it's still true today.

@hanbaobun i would prefer that you link my articles instead of hotlinking my images so i don't have to put referer checks on my image serving.

@hanbaobun thanks for the kind words. i appreciate people taking the time to read my bullshit.

@morb not a ton but also it's sort of janky, although that is partially the fault of my reverse proxy sending everything with the same client ip to the app. if i had to do it again i'd use pleroma, and maybe run the masto frontend talking to it (pleroma implements the mastodon client-facing api)

@morb missed you, frand

@hanbaobun

https://sneak.berlin/20200220/discord-is-not-an-acceptable-choice-for-free-software-projects/

wow, watching steve jobs recite this alan kay quote, >10 years ago, on this week that apple just shipped macs sporting their own chips, gave me literal chills:

https://youtu.be/iITBqB_uJdI?t=1837

@tedu hahaha that is amazing.

i actually quit twitter because they started censoring search results for qanon-related shit. i was trying to keep an eye on the spread of those whackjobs their memes of the hour and twitter decided it was too dangerous to let me read.

https://sneak.berlin/20201031/goodbye-twitter/

my default branches have not been renamed, therefore you must assume i am a bad person.

google is reversing course on its aggressive AMP strategy (good news).

https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/11/19/as-antitrust-pressure-mounts-google-to-pull-back-benefit-to-news-sites-that-adopted-its-preferred-mobile-technology

@paoloredaelli web apis suck and can't do most things. also html/js is trash. jobs was right, native apps are a million times better.

@Seirdy @berkes @sir

if a website can't handle a set of approximately simultaneous requests from all of the AP servers in the world, that website sucks and should go down. that's only like what, 500-1000 hits?

@Crocmagnon no, i tend not to criticize individual strivers. sircmpwn's heart is in the right place mostly, from what i can tell, and i hope he does okay for himself. i just don't think the product decisions in play there will result in srht becoming even medium-sized or remotely mainstream. it's specifically anti-graphics and anti-social from what i can tell, which limits its usefulness for collaboration on software with large groups of strangers. great for lone wolves.

@yaaps@banana.dog @emsenn i already muted that crazy person though, unlike their lies i actually don't wish to engage with idiots

@yaaps@banana.dog @emsenn i will reply forever

us fed pigs will execute unarmed people if they think they pose a political threat:

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007384938/michael-reinoehl-police-shooting.html?playlistId=video/investigations

@emsenn

you're lying. if you were avoiding conversations with people like me, you wouldn't be replying telling me how much you avoid conversations like this.

you don't get to control what other people say on the web. your participation in all conversations on activitypub is optional, and opt-in. if you don't want to talk to me, you know where the mute and block buttons are, and nothing forces you to hit reply.

few things are worse than someone posturing like this, tbh. *you* opted in.

@sir i don't think it's a problem. the web is large now and webservers need to account for that, unless there's some specific bug that's causing things to get hit more than there are eyeballs